Blogging and community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007. Given the trend in the average life span of a blogger and the current growth rate of blogs, there are already more than 200 million ex-bloggers. Consequently, the peak number of bloggers will be around 100 million at some point in the first [...]

Here is a piece of good writing from Danah Boyd on social networks and how they model, or fail to, relationships between people. How can someone have over 10000 friends? Who are their best friends? Why people create fake identities? The real question is do the social networking sites actually work in the intended context [...]